lately I've been looking at the boost mobile phones for use as a GPS tracking device. Much like a lo-jack for your car. Simply sign up for the prepaid phone with internet access... install a java app and instantly you've got GPS coordinates accessable on a website.

July 16th, 2006
Looks like mologogo may be the way to go! I hear they have a new interface to allow you to have them stream the GPS data to your servers on the net. So I'll be doing some more research into this area.

Once I figure out how all this java stuff works on mobile devices. Here are some java midlets I'm interested in:Virca IRC MIDlet

Update: July 30th, 2006YAPL: Yet Another Payphone List - found this cool little site today, it is very neat. People upload information on where are the pay phones are in your town. Things like GPS, incoming call number, and information about the phone are provided. Neato stuff.

Also I've been thinking about creating some software to allow you to annoate a road with information in realtime in the car. That way you could do something like associate speed limit information with road information and tie it all together with GPS location information.

One thing that I've been really looking for is the ability to give a web service or local database a GPS reading and have it give me back the closet road that the car is on... or the nearest intersection. There really should be an open source system for this, as it would be advantgeous for everyone doing anything with location, presense, augmented reality, and navigation.